Papercut

Bryan was trying to open a plastic packet of peanuts when he cut his thumb on the edge. It was quite a big cut but he didn't fuss at all. We put on a band-aid. The next day, I went out to get some more and bought the Winnie the Pooh ones. Which he absolutely loved to put on and show off.

Rainbows

It's early in the morning, just about 8am and it's raining. I'm sending Bryan to school and it looks like a dreary day. And then, I notice this really pretty rainbow in the sky. It really brightened up my day.

A Close Call

Just this Tuesday, I had an accident with a double decker SBS bus. It happened when we were both turning onto the Newton Circus round-about. I was in the 2nd lane next to the bus turning left when he must have failed to see me also turning left. His bus cut into my lane and hit my front left passenger side door. The knock was quite jarring and left a pretty big dent in the car door and damaged the left side mirror. Fortunately for me, I happened to be driving my Volvo at the time and although it looked bad on the outside, the inside of the car door had hardly a scratch.

Of course the driver of the bus said that I came into his lane, while I was very sure I stayed in the middle where I was supposed to be. Meanwhile, he insisted that if anything, I could pay up for the minor scratches his bus sustained. So I told him that I would be making a report to the insurance company and we'll take it from there. For a while there, I had started to worry about my own driving abilities. I think it was the initial shock that did it.

Thank goodness though that hubbie was the one that made the initial arrangements to go to the car workshop to have it looked at. I'm not sure what I would have done. I had managed to drive myself to work and actually open my clinic. Thank goodness it wasn't busy that morning. And hubbie was with me as well to talk to the workshop people later that afternoon. He has a very calming/soothing effect on me. I think it's because I know he'll always be there when I need him.

The Volvo workshop was quite helpful in letting us know what usually happens after that. However, the initial estimate of the repair seemed rather steep, at almost $10K. We were initially looking at claiming from the 3rd party since it now sounded to me very much like it was his fault for not looking out for me. But I guess we were going to have to wait for the insurance/lawyers to settle the problem.

So we'll be bringing the car in on Monday to have it fixed. And we'll see what happens after that. I hope we manage to get back all our claims and save hubbie's insurance rating. Since the car is registered under his name.

Sunset Grill

There is this gorgeous little restaurant in the middle of Seletar Airport. And there is a very good reason why it's called Sunset Grill. I think it's a much better place to look at planes compared to Changi Airport. And very close up too. Bryan was so excited to see the planes up close. He wanted to "sit in it" and "go up up up!". The food was not bad too. Their speciality is the Buffalo Wings. You can try it in different levels of spiciness, from 1 all the way up to 30! 

Train Ride

The past weekend was a quiet one for Bryan and me. Everyone else was away in Malaysia for the weekend. So the two of us spent the weekend together.

I took him on his first MRT ride. He has seen the MRT trains passby lots of time along the road. And he's always said he wants to sit on the train. So since we had time and we were in the vicinity of an MRT station, we took a short ride. I wouldn't have minded going on a longer round trip but it happened to be peak hour, close to dinner time so the trains were pretty crowded. We only went up and down a couple of stations. But he did enjoy himself a lot. And was really excited about the whole trip. He pointed out stuff from the window including other trains and the approaching train station. And he remembered to 'hold on tight' to the bars on the train so he wouldn't fall. Then for dinner, we went to Swensons. We had spaghetti and a whole strawberry sundae.

Then on Sunday, he was up bright and early and came knocking on my door. So I had to forgo the idea of sleeping in on Sunday this time. We went to church and then walked across to the shopping mall across the street. I would give him the usual talk about waiting for the green man before crossing the road. It's the usual Sunday ritual we have. I take him to church, where he would sit for the whole service and then we would 'go for a walk to look at the fountain'. Right across the street from St Andrew's Cathedral, is Raffles City. It has a row fountains of varying heights on the outside. Bryan would count how many fountains there are and then point out 'small', 'medium' and 'big'.